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I'm not sure I believe your assertion that building a PC makes people love it for life— I built a PC in high school, then switched over to a Macbook for college

I'm not sure I believe your assertion that building a PC makes people love it for life— I built a PC in high school, then switched over to a Macbook for college and haven't looked back. Now that fiddling with computers is my job, it's less appealing as a hobby.

electic 10y ago
Agree. I used to build PCs as well. I even had a review site that received 2MM uniques a month and manufacturers would send me motherboards and top end video cards, for free, to review. I loved making PCs but would I trade my Macbook Pro and go back to a PC/Windows setup, no. I don't imagine anyone would want to go thru that. Getting a case, fiddling with screws, power supplies, Video Card, and CPUs. Even worse, it is highly error prone. Do something wrong and POOF that 800 dollar CPU you bought is toast.
- quickben 10y ago
  Arguably, you a trading the chance to lose 800 with a guaranteed loss of around that much, just by paying the Apple premium.
  - electic 10y ago
    800 is the tip of the iceberg. There is a lot that "just works" in an Apple ecosystem.
    - CamelCaseName 10y ago
      I was briefly an Macbook Pro user for four months (recently went back in late Dec.) could you talk a bit more about features that "just work" in Apple?
eecks 10y ago
I also built a PC and then went straight to using laptops and now a macbook pro
vijucat 10y ago
I wouldn't bother with building one myself, either; it's a huge time investment, not to mention the art of thermal paste application, cuts from sharp motherboard edges, and losing my BIOS settings to static electricity (although I totally appreciated the end-result of being able to upgrade my CPU and Windows accepting the hardware upgrade, bless Microsoft). My assertion was more about the huge number of other people that seem enthused about it.

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I'm not sure I believe your assertion that building a PC makes people love it for life— I built a PC in high school, then switched over to a Macbook for college

by akgerber 10y ago

electic 10y ago
Agree. I used to build PCs as well. I even had a review site that received 2MM uniques a month and manufacturers would send me motherboards and top end video cards, for free, to review. I loved making PCs but would I trade my Macbook Pro and go back to a PC/Windows setup, no. I don't imagine anyone would want to go thru that. Getting a case, fiddling with screws, power supplies, Video Card, and CPUs. Even worse, it is highly error prone. Do something wrong and POOF that 800 dollar CPU you bought is toast.
- quickben 10y ago
  Arguably, you a trading the chance to lose 800 with a guaranteed loss of around that much, just by paying the Apple premium.
  - electic 10y ago
    800 is the tip of the iceberg. There is a lot that "just works" in an Apple ecosystem.
    - CamelCaseName 10y ago
      I was briefly an Macbook Pro user for four months (recently went back in late Dec.) could you talk a bit more about features that "just work" in Apple?
eecks 10y ago
I also built a PC and then went straight to using laptops and now a macbook pro
vijucat 10y ago
I wouldn't bother with building one myself, either; it's a huge time investment, not to mention the art of thermal paste application, cuts from sharp motherboard edges, and losing my BIOS settings to static electricity (although I totally appreciated the end-result of being able to upgrade my CPU and Windows accepting the hardware upgrade, bless Microsoft). My assertion was more about the huge number of other people that seem enthused about it.